Northern lights and night-shining clouds come together to make stunning time-lapse

This stunning time-lapse film shows a rare celestial show of noctilucent
clouds and a dancing aurora recorded over a glowing Scottish night sky.

5:13PM BST 22 Aug 2013

An astronomer who was lucky enough to witness the famous Northern Lights captured the video earlier this month, over a single night above Caithness, Scotland.

It is unusual to see either phenomena, and it is quite a sight for sky gazers to see them together.

Maciej Winiarczyk pictured the fantastic light show shortly after sunset.

"It was a really, really special moment," Mr Winiarczyk said.

"I'm an astronomer so I wanted to spend a night under the stars. I was hoping to see the night-shining clouds, which I saw I got them shortly after sunset, and then suddenly I was treated to the aurora as well.